All articles by Peter Baumgartner

When our agency began in 2007, using Python on the web was still a rarity, but some new projects in the space were starting to pop up. TurboGears had gained popularity with its MVC approach, but it was another Python …

It’s every publisher’s dream to “go viral” and reach thousands, if not millions, of new people. Many videos, tweets, images, articles, and infographics are created with exactly this goal in mind. But far too often, less thought goes into ensuring …

Back in 2018, I wrote about using setup.py in your Django/Python project. Five years later, setup.py is being phased out in favor of pyproject.toml. I’m a big fan of this change. With setup.py you could really go off the rails …

Your website is the hub of your business. It holds the promise of competitive advantage and the responsibility of delivering excellent customer service. Designing and building any new web application or restructuring your web development operations is a substantial undertaking, …

tl;dr I built a benchmark for Python Package managers, you can view it at https://lincolnloop.github.io/python-package-manager-shootout/ When starting a new Python project, you have a few different options for how you want to manage your dependencies. Like Node.js has npm, yarn, …

One of the first things you need to do when starting a new Django project is to choose which version of Django you are going to use. At any given time, there could be as many as three supported Django …

In 2014 Yann Malet and I (with the help of the rest of the team here) wrote a book about building and scaling Django websites. It was the culmination of things we’d learned from, at the time, close to a …

As you start scaling an application out horizontally (adding more servers/instances), you may run into a problem that requires distributed locking. That’s a fancy term, but the concept is simple. Sometimes you have to be sure that when a block …

I’ve been working quite a bit lately on streamlining Lincoln Loop’s standard deployment systems. One thorn we’ve always had is how to handle application configuration. In the past, we would have our configuration management system write the configuration out to …

Two of the biggest benefits pipenv and poetry are dependency locking and hash checking. Dependency locking means you can specify the direct dependencies your code requires, for example, celery==4.4.* and the tooling will lock, not only celery to a specific …